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Friday, October 12, 2012

This summer a special Health Care Task Force composed of
staff representatives from across the UA system met to
research and propose possible solutions to offset increasing
health care costs. They were charged with thinking of
out-of-the-box solutions for cost containment. Their proposals
were recently summarized and shared with the Joint Health Care
Committee (JHCC). The JHCC will be meeting in Anchorage next
week to discuss these recommendations. You may review the
document here:http://www.alaska.edu/files/governance/HCTF-final-report.pdf

The current staff members on the Joint Health Care
Committee are Melodee Monson from UAA (anmam@uaa.alaska.edu)
and Gwenna Richardson from UAS (gjrichardson@uas.alaska.edu).
If you want to provide them with feedback before the JHCC
meeting in Anchorage next week I strongly encourage you to
do so.

Please keep in mind that these are suggestions alone and
do not represent any final decisions regarding our health
plan or benefits. This is your opportunity to use the
governance system to make your opinion heard. I strongly
encourage all of you to review this document and weigh in on
the discussion.